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This article investigates the practical scenarios of chasing an adversarial evader in an unbounded environment with cluttered obstacles. We propose a Voronoi-based decentralized algorithm for multiple pursuers to encircle and capture the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Xinyi Wang , Yulong Ding , Yizhou Chen , Ruihua Han , Lele Xi , Ben M. Chen

We study the problem of capturing an Omnidirectional Evader in convex environments using a Differential Drive Robot (DDR). The DDR wins the game if at any time instant it captures (collides with) the evader. The evader wins if it can avoid…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-02-09 Ubaldo Ruiz , Volkan Isler

We present a method for pursuit/evasion that is highly efficient and and scales to large teams of aircraft. The underlying algorithm is an efficient algorithm for solving Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) that supports fully continuous state…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Joshua R. Bertram , Peng Wei

In classical works on a planar differential pursuit-evasion game with a faster pursuer, the intercept point resulting from the equilibrium strategies lies on the Apollonius circle. This property was exploited for the construction of the…

Most of the existing research on pursuit-evasion game (PEG) is conducted in a two-dimensional (2D) environment. In this paper, we investigate the PEG in a 3D space. We extend the Apollonius circle (AC) to the 3D space and introduce its…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-12 Penglin Hu

In this paper, we consider a territory guarding game involving pursuers, evaders and a target in an environment that contains obstacles. The goal of the evaders is to capture the target, while that of the pursuers is to capture the evaders…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Sagar Verma , Richa Verma , P. B. Sujit

This paper introduces a new family of pursuit strategies for multi-pursuer single-evader games in a planar environment. They leverage conditions under which the minimum-time solution of the game becomes equivalent to that of a suitable…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-11 Marco Casini , Andrea Garulli

This paper studies a two-player game with a quantitative surveillance requirement on an adversarial target moving in a discrete state space and a secondary objective to maximize short-term visibility of the environment. We impose the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Suda Bharadwaj , Louis Ly , Bo Wu , Richard Tsai , Ufuk Topcu

We analyze a two-player game in which players take turns avoiding the selection of certain points within a convex geometry. The objective is to prevent the convex closure of all chosen points from encompassing a predefined set. The first…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Seomgeun Shim

We investigate a variation of the art gallery problem in which a team of mobile guards tries to track an unpredictable intruder in a simply-connected polygonal environment. In this work, we use the deployment strategy for diagonal guards…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-11-16 Guillermo J. Laguna , Rui Zou , Sourabh Bhattacharya

We consider a surveillance-evasion game in an environment with obstacles. In such an environment, a mobile pursuer seeks to maintain the visibility with a mobile evader, who tries to get occluded from the pursuer in the shortest time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-28 Carlos Esteve-Yagüe , Richard Tsai

We study the class of reach-avoid dynamic games in which multiple agents interact noncooperatively, and each wishes to satisfy a distinct target criterion while avoiding a failure criterion. Reach-avoid games are commonly used to express…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-03 Dennis R. Anthony , Duy P. Nguyen , David Fridovich-Keil , Jaime F. Fisac

This paper proposes a motion control scheme for robots operating in a dynamic environment with concave obstacles. A Model Predictive Controller (MPC) is constructed to drive the robot towards a goal position while ensuring collision…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Albin Dahlin , Yiannis Karayiannidis

We consider a variant of the target defense problem where a single defender is tasked to capture a sequence of incoming intruders. The intruders' objective is to breach the target boundary without being captured by the defender. As soon as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Arman Pourghorban , Michael Dorothy , Daigo Shishika , Alexander Von Moll , Dipankar Maity

Pursuit and evasion conflicts represent challenging problems with important applications in aerospace and robotics. In pursuit-evasion problems, synthesis of intelligent actions must consider the adversary's potential strategies.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-12 Isaac E. Weintraub , Meir Pachter , Eloy Garcia

We consider a class of pursuit-evasion differential games in which the evader has continuous access to the pursuer's location, but not vice-versa. There is an immobile sensor (e.g., a ground radar station) that can sense the evader's…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-06 Dipankar Maity

In this work, we extend the convex bodies chasing problem (CBC) to an adversarial setting, where an agent (the Player) is tasked with chasing a sequence of convex bodies generated adversarially by another agent (the Opponent). The Player…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-20 Yue Guan , Longxu Pan , Daigo Shishika , Panagiotis Tsiotras

This paper studies a pursuit-evasion problem involving a single pursuer and a single evader, where we are interested in developing a pursuit strategy that doesn't require continuous, or even periodic, information about the position of the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-01-20 Saad A. Aleem , Cameron Nowzari , George J. Pappas

This paper proposes vehicle motion planning methods with obstacle avoidance in tight spaces by incorporating polygonal approximations of both the vehicle and obstacles into a model predictive control (MPC) framework. Representing these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Haruki Kojima , Kohei Honda , Hiroyuki Okuda , Tatsuya Suzuki

Surveillance-Evasion (SE) games form an important class of adversarial trajectory-planning problems. We consider time-dependent SE games, in which an Evader is trying to reach its target while minimizing the cumulative exposure to a moving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-09 Elliot Cartee , Lexiao Lai , Qianli Song , Alexander Vladimirsky